Well I couldn't figure out how to edit my previous posts so I'm just going to make another post. I'd like you to pretend that I won't be able to purchase a RO filter or a Distiller machine. One thing I would like to mention though about putting the water in the resv. every two weeks is that I fill it with gallon jugs. Now, I fill the water in the jugs with the brita filtered water the day that I actually drain and fill every two weeks. What I'd like to know is if I should fill the water and let it sit for a while and if that would matter at all. Also, I'm not really all that hot on how the lighting makes affects on the plant other than when heat affects them and I'm positive heat isn't a problem because I'm using T5's. What I want to know is if there could ever be a situation where there is TOO much light, or is there no such thing? The reason I ask is cause I was using four T5 metal halides and four T5 red lights (I don't know what they are called, they have a kind of pinkish color to them and I'm supposing are the equivolent to sodiums). Right now I was affraid that the four red lights may have been causing issues so I'm only using four metal halides right now but I could theoretically use eight in the tent.

On the question bout the PH in my e & f setup, I'm filling it with only brita filtered water, then I put in the nutes, and then I lastly PH it down to 6.0. Usually it will go back up to maybe 6.2 overnight and I have adjust it maybe 3 times total and then it generally stays at 6.0 for the remainder of the two weeks. There have been a couple instances where I had to nock it up, and just recently with these plants when I first put them in the system I had to nock it up to 6.0 at least five times before it stabilized. I do think that maybe because I'm alittle high on my PH that it could be part of the problem but at this point I'm just totally at a loss of what to do. I will say that generally the PH goes up very slowly though from what I can remember from these last three attempts, I've rarely had to raise the PH, I usually have to nock it down. I will say as of right now, the plants are not really deteriorating much anymore but the smaller darker leaf plants have white tips and the lower bigger leaves tips are starting to burn very slowly. What I'm afraid of, is that now that I'm using 3.5 TSP of nutes/gal. instead of the recommend 4.0 TSP nutes/gal. that I've slowed the nute burn issue to some degree but maybe now the plants aren't getting enough of some of the other elements in the nute mix. Five of the plants sprung up real fast and then started burning real fast and then the other three didn't hardly grow at all and there was alot of yellowing on the leaves from the tip and edges moving inward. Now the ones that were yellowing have much darker leaves than the five that sprung up real fast but still have white tips and some of the lower leaves are starting to actually burn and turn brown on the very tips and the big ones haven't really grown at all, but haven't really deteriorated any further after I used 3/4 nutes instead of full nutes. I would like to also mention that I'm pretty much considering these clones as test subjects because I've got seedlings going and they are springing up very quickly. I soaked rockwool cubes in 1/2 bloom for 24 hours and then planted the seeds after they started showing roots comming out of their seeds. I watered them twice a day with PH 6 water only for about 4 days and already have roots comming out of the rockwool so just yesterday I started watering them twice a day with PH6 water with 1/2 strength grow and they are already three inchs tall and looking healthy so far. But I'm trying to figure out what my problem is with these clones first hopefully before I need to actually put these seedlings in my system because they are good quality seeds (AK-47) but are un-sexed. With all my fiasco's so far, if I can get these to stay healthy and bloom, I plan on seeding the females if at all possible because I'm down to swag seeds and clones isn't really a steady option for me at the moment until I can get something to grow.